EFF reaches a million votes

[LazyLion]

New kids on the block the Economic Freedom Fighters cracked the million vote mark on Friday morning in their first national elections.

Early results from the Electoral Commission of SA results centre in Pretoria showed that Julius Malema's party had 1,002,355 votes by 7.05am on Friday.

This meant the party had 6.06 percent of the national votes from Wednesday's elections.

The votes could secure at least 20 seats in Parliament for the fledgling party. For a seat in Parliament, a political party needs about 47,000 votes.

With 94.61 percent of the votes counted, the African National Congress had 62.51 percent of the national votes with 10,333,002 votes while the Democratic Alliance remained in second place with 21.96 percent of the national votes. The DA had 3,629,890 votes.

The EFF was in third place.

Veteran party Inkatha Freedom Party had 405,802 (2.45 percent) votes, followed by their breakaway party the National Freedom Party with 269,712 (1.63 percent) votes.

Other debutant parties, such as Agang SA, the Workers and Socialist Party and the Patriotic Alliance have not done as well as Malema's EFF.

Mamphela Ramphele's Agang SA had only received 0.26 percent with 43,651 votes, which at this stage did not qualify the party for a seat in Parliament.

Kenny Kunene's Patriotic Alliance received 12,710 votes (0.08 percent) and Wasp 7497 (0.05 percent) of the votes.

A total of 16,529,857 votes have been counted.


Source : Sapa /dm/fg/ks
Date : 09 May 2014 07:32

 

[Rickster]

1 Million wasted votes...fk logic.

 

[dualmeister]

1 Million suckers expecting free houses :erm:

 

[Purply]

1 Million less votes for the cANCer , well done EFF

 

[Nom Chompsky]

1 Million wasted votes...fk logic.

Better than voting for the ANC.

I think the EFF are a worthwhile addition to democracy if they remain politically small (6-10%) of the vote.

 

[abandonallhope]

I would be very very careful what I wish for with the EFF.

 

[Pooky]

Impressive.

 

[TelkomUseless]

1 Million suckers expecting free houses :erm:

that is how I see it... 1 million people wanting everything for free ..

 

[Mila]

The ANC Created them and their leader.
I'm not surprised that this is the number of votes what surprise me is that they didn't take Limpopo.
They did well in NW with JUJU promising the starving miners free houses and huge salaries.

 

[Wall]

Scary....

 

[Falco]

And now they must deliver on their promises....of course withing the boundaries of their power

 

[abandonallhope]

The ANC Created them and their leader.

That occurred to me as well, or I heard it somewhere, don't know.

Given the circumstances, it was a rather efficient way to take votes away from the DA. Disgruntled people who didn't want to vote for the ANC anymore.

 

[zululami]

You've got to hand it to them... 'cause they won't work for it...

 

[The_Unbeliever]

Without the EFF the cANCer would've got us by the short and curlies.

 

[Brawler]

that is how I see it... 1 million people wanting everything for free ..

EFF: Everything For Free.

Now they have to get jobs, shame.

 

[kianm]

1 Million less votes for the cANCer , well done EFF

+1 , dilute the cancer

 

[wolverine_dcp]

New kids on the block the Economic Freedom Fighters cracked the million vote mark on Friday morning in their first national elections.

Early results from the Electoral Commission of SA results centre in Pretoria showed that Julius Malema's party had 1,002,355 votes by 7.05am on Friday.

This meant the party had 6.06 percent of the national votes from Wednesday's elections.

The votes could secure at least 20 seats in Parliament for the fledgling party. For a seat in Parliament, a political party needs about 47,000 votes.

With 94.61 percent of the votes counted, the African National Congress had 62.51 percent of the national votes with 10,333,002 votes while the Democratic Alliance remained in second place with 21.96 percent of the national votes. The DA had 3,629,890 votes.

The EFF was in third place.

Veteran party Inkatha Freedom Party had 405,802 (2.45 percent) votes, followed by their breakaway party the National Freedom Party with 269,712 (1.63 percent) votes.

Other debutant parties, such as Agang SA, the Workers and Socialist Party and the Patriotic Alliance have not done as well as Malema's EFF.

Mamphela Ramphele's Agang SA had only received 0.26 percent with 43,651 votes, which at this stage did not qualify the party for a seat in Parliament.

Kenny Kunene's Patriotic Alliance received 12,710 votes (0.08 percent) and Wasp 7497 (0.05 percent) of the votes.

A total of 16,529,857 votes have been counted.


Source : Sapa /dm/fg/ks
Date : 09 May 2014 07:32

 

[MrGray]

It will be interesting to see what happens. COPE got 1.3 million votes in 2009, but only 117000 this time around.

The EFF is really only about Julius and there really isn't any other leadership charisma in the party, not to mention that Julius will be way out of his depth in parliament. If Julius can't overcome his legal battles, or makes a clown of himself in parliament I suspect that they will implode similarly.

As with COPE, EFF was really just a vote of discontent against the ANC, and those kind of voters will be fickle. His voters will quickly realise that they don't any more have free land/houses and benefits than they did before and get irritated plus if the EFF gets even remotely discredited or something else comes along that they find more appealing, they'll just move on. There's also the possibility that the long term comforts of being on the parliamentary gravy train will appeal more than being a firebrand and he'll horse trade his following for a more stable position back in the ANC.

 

[Devill]

The test will come int he next election when the voters will judge the EFF's progress.

 

[MrGray]

The test will come int he next election when the voters will judge the EFF's progress.

When the voters realise they're not getting any free land, sea or money for nothing they will drop him.